Head of SEO- Apac

This is your chance to be part of an award-winning agency, where everything you do will impact the growth and success of the business, locally and globally.
We are the biggest NERDS, we are SUPER FUN, and it’s no joke. Collaborating every day, we focus on numbers-based thinking that we know will deliver real, tangible, data-driven insights (none of the fluff, jargon, and guesswork you might see elsewhere) and we have a FUN time doing it all together.
Over 3 years, we’ve invested $1M+ into trying and testing every digital strategy to see what works and what doesn’t. It seems the rules to succeeding online are always changing, so everyday our team is building new and intuitive tools to tackle the future of marketing.
We solve the digital world by turning to the numbers (real, hard evidence you can’t deny). And our clients turn to us, the Online Marketing Gurus (the nerds who know their stuff and get it done).
**As a Head of SEO,** you will be responsible for leading the SEO team to deliver client results, providing strategic counsel to the team & clients, in Australia.
By coaching the SEOs on how to understand a clients’ business, and serve as their go-to thought leader on SEO, content opportunities and link building strategies, you will ensure the quality of work meets expectations and delivers ROI that retains & grows our client database.
In addition to leading the SEO team, you’ll work closely with our Heads of Client Services, Content and Links teams, to ensure our processes, campaign strategies and execution are consistently achieving measurable business outcomes.
**As Head of SEO-, you will be responsible for**:

- Organise the workload for the SEO team members, ensuring quality in the work delivered.
- Escalation point for Organic Delivery Team members.
- Recruiting & developing the best SEOs in Australia, Philippines, and other regions OMG where is present to maintain & grow our offering.
- Work with cross functional departments to develop and track all the details of SEO initiatives.
- Build and maintain project management processes that streamline SEO initiatives.
- Our clients require bespoke strategies, and you will work with our senior SEO specialists on devising the right strategy for each client, creating efficient templates/processes along the way to support the wider team's learning of SEO best practice.
- In addition to your leadership responsibilities, the day-to-day includes an opportunity to stay hands-on with high-value client work.

**Requirements**:

- Management of a team of 8+ people.
- Approx 5+ years in Digital.
- Approx 6+ years SEO experience.
- Experience in Content analysis & strategy, Data analysis & strategy, Off-site (links) analysis & strategy
- An in-depth understanding of SEO and what needs to be done in an agency environment to get and maintain great results is essential.
- A deep understanding of tools such as SEMRush, Screaming Frog, Google Search Console etc.
- Serve as SEO expert for business development pitches.
- Provide training and education for non-SEO team members and client
- Experience managing an SEO team is preferred.
- An analytical mind and strong attention to detail with experience extracting meaningful insights from various datasets.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present confidently both internally and to clients.
- Understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc
- Advanced knowledge of Google Sheets, Docs, Slides, etc

**Benefits**
- Work flexibility & hybrid working
- Birthday leave
- Paid Parental leave ‍‍
- Volunteer leave
- Additional annual “flex” leave
- Global Career progression opportunities
- Career Development and Training Programs
- Employee Assistance Program
- Salary packaging benefits
- Pet friendly and vibrant office
- Barista style coffee ️
- Social events - gourmet lunches, social drinks
- Service recognition awards

**About OMG**:

- AFR Best Places to Work finalist
- Our #1 belief and goal is that if employees are happy and over the moon - the culture is amazing and together we can achieve incredible results
- Massive focus on hiring good human beings - we believe the rest can be learned and developed through our training initiatives
- Huge focus on employee development, engagement & growth opportunities
- Hybrid-working - enjoy the great office vibe and the benefit of working from home
- Largest independent agency in Australia - tripled revenue year in last 3 years
- We are in significant growth mode, looking for our future leaders as we scale globally
- currently 140+ employees in Sydney and Melbourne, 40 in the Philippines, as well as USA expansion ongoing. This was 30 employees 3 years ago
- R&D investment, forefront of digital marketing, innovation
- Our values are
- We ‘Share evidence, not opinion’, ‘Find solutions, not problems’, ‘Make customers love you’, ‘Own it and get it done’
- We live Diversity, Equity & Inclusion as our people including our